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This is a fine piece of work done while Julius was a Miller Fellow in the Arkin Lab RNA SynBio group.  In the paper, we show how naturally-occurring trans-acting RNAs can be fused to aptamers (RNA structures that bind to other biomolecules) to allosterically control their regulatory function.  Along the way we showed how SHAPEContinue reading “Julius has a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research on engineering allosteric RNA regulators”

Sarai graduated from Yale with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Sarai is interested in the principles of RNA design, and applying these to design new functionalities for RNAs. In her free time she enjoys dance, cooking and baking something delicious.

Jay Park, a junior CBE major in the Lucks Lab has been chosen by Genentech to win the Scheele Outstanding Junior Award. The award “recognizes a student who excels in scholarship, leadership, and campus activities, and is given to a student who “upon graduation will be a positive reflection of Cornell in the industrial ChemicalContinue reading “Jay Park Wins Genentech Scheele Outstanding Junior Award!”

Kyle graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He is interested in future career as an entrepreneur, and has spent his summers interning at companies including Genentech, Inc. and the former Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. In his spare time, Kyle participates in intramural sports and advises the NY D chapter of Tau BetaContinue reading “Kyle Watters joins the Lucks Lab!”

Organized by Dan Gibson, Sang Yup Lee and Pam Silver, this is looking like a who’s who of Synthetic Biology –http://www.csh-asia.org/design11.html.  Julius is talking in the ‘Designing with RNA’ section.

Welcome Jay Park, Helen Tan and Matt Carter!

SynBERC – the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center led by Jay Keasling – recently admitted Julius as an affiliated investigator – http://www.synberc.org/people#affiliates. The bi-annual SynBERC retreats are invaluable gatherings of researchers pushing the boundaries of synthetic biology.  What an honor!

Just a little blurb from attending the industry day.  It is going to be very exciting to see what ideas come out of this program. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/06/darpa-to-offer-30-million-to-jump.html?ref=hp

Many, many thanks to the wonderful group of people I worked with to make this the best conference I have ever gone to – Caroline Ajo Franklin, Jeff Tabor, Drew Endy, Holly Mililion, Lauren Ha and Thi van anh Thach.  I learned a tremendous amount in the process, and it was awesome to see theContinue reading “Synthetic Biology 5.0 Was a HUGE Success!”

Building up to SB 5.0, Erica Check Hayden, checked in to see how the conference was shaping up – http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110614/full/474261a.html.  It turned out to be a great piece on the state of the field of Synthetic Biology, and the excitement surrounding SB 5.0.  And SHAPE-Seq got a plug too!